Excited to see this book out! Here my co-authors (incl @banerjeeshonali.bsky.social) and I put forth an innovative perspective on international aid, going beyond top-down attempts to centre local voices and practices.

Get yours here: bristol-press.co.uk/horizontal-d...

#horizontaldevelopment

Exciting news! 🌍 The CAS Annual Conference, this year focusing on ‘Climate Dynamics and the Politics of a Post-Carbon Africa,’ is just around the corner (24-25 April at the University of Edinburgh).

Registration closes 7 February—don’t miss your chance to join this crucial conversation! 💡✨👇

📚 Thrilled to see this book I contributed to finally out just in time for the holidays!! Perfect for your reading list as you reflect, research or recharge this season!

Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators.

More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):

1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇

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Why are the number of applications for Health & Social Care Visas falling?

The article written by Work Rights Centre explains why, and what this means for the care sector ⬇️

www.workrightscentre.org/news/drop-in...

Study the MSc Africa and International Development with the Nyerere scholarship.

For Tanzanian graduates of the University of Dar es Salaam.

Follow in Julius Nyerere’s footsteps and study at The University of Edinburgh.
Deadline 28 January 2025
Info: https://bit.ly/SPS-Nyerere

Migration, mobility and displacement consultant researcher wanted at IIED:

www.iied.org/wanted-migra...

Please consider coming to this event on Sudan next week (10th December) in London

Radhouane Nouicer, the Designated Expert on Sudan of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights will be speaking, along with other experts on this urgent issue.

Please register as we have limited seats:

**Black UK PhD students**

This is the programme you want! It is all the bells and whistles, full fees and stipend, any subject, industrial experience offered, 50 other Black scholars already on board and administrated in an environment of care.

**Tell everyone**

Opportunities for writers and poets for December 2024.
#Opportunities #Callouts #Fiction #Poetry #Nonfiction
www.writingafrica.com/opportunitie...

Opening the Borders to Nigel Farage:

“Keir Starmer's attempts to mimic the rhetoric of the Reform leader will end as badly for him as it did for his Conservative predecessors” : @adambienkov.bsky.social
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/opening-th...

£715,000,000 spent on the Tory ‘Batshit’ Rwanda plan. £715Million!

Not including the eye watering costs of the UK based cruelty they perused; camps, hotels, not processing claims, refusing people working rights…

www.gov.uk/government/p...

So it seems that Columbia has said it will reciprocate yesterday's change in the immigration rules by requiring UK nationals to need a visa to visit there apnews.com/article/colo...

If you work on similar issues, consider submitting a paper to our panel on “Nostalgia, Collective Memory, and the Social Lives of #African #Diasporas in Shifting European Landscapes” at #ECAS2025 in Prague next year.

Submit by 15 December here: www.ecasconference.org/2025/call-fo...

Those of us who do this work from the global majority try to bring it up but it’s hard. For one, it’s impossible to overstate the level of intellectual capture that the AI hype machine exerts over academia and policy communities in developing countries. “Digital jobs” has often meant dirty work.

"How do you make ‘strong’ men? According to the right, it’s by making them cruel. “Owning the libs” isn’t just entertainment and sport, it’s important psychological training for the civil war they believe is to come."

www.skeptic.org.uk/2024/11/the-...

Thrilled to finally land on Bluesky! I feel like I have walked into a room where all the reasonable people went when the rest of the party got weird!